I was honoured to join Care Talk Live and the Social Care Institute for Excellence‘s Conference, “From New Normal to New Future”.

Care Talk is a magazine exclusively for those working in social care, and aims to promote and celebrate positive stories in care. The Social Care Institute for Excellence is an improvement agency that focuses on involving users of social care in developing better quality care.

I sat on a panel with Baroness Ros Altmann, Anna Severwright, Karolina Gerlich and Roger Booker, to discuss how to make social care work. It was great to hear from frontline staff and care managers about their experiences with the social care system and what needs to be done to improve it. The audience asked some incredibly interesting questions on how we make the argument in favour of social care. I believe it is time to change the way we advocate for social care, and ensure that decision-makers listen and act.

Thank you to all those who attended, and to the other panellists. It was a really interesting discussion and I hope that we can work together moving forward to build a social care system that works for users, families and staff.